| | Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 61 | Title: | Jones, Day, Cockley & Reavis Records
| | | | Creator: | Jones, Day, Cockley & Reavis | | | | Dates: | 1917-1959 | | | | Abstract: | Jones, Day, Cockley & Reavis is a prominent Cleveland, Ohio, law firm which specializes in corporate law. The collection consists of 72 bound volumes, each relating to a specific legal or financial activity engaged in by a Cleveland business or industry, and each containing all documents relevant to the action, including letters, memoranda, deeds, indentures, contracts, stock certificates and the like. | | | | Call #: | MS 3206 | | | | Extent: | 9.00 linear feet (20 containers) | | | | Subjects: | Jones, Day, Cockley & Reavis (Cleveland, Ohio) | Law firms -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Corporation law -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Corporations -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Consolidation and merger of corporations -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Corporate divestiture -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Business records -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 62 | Title: | Reliance Electric Company Records and Photographs
| | | | Creator: | Reliance Electric Company | | | | Dates: | 1905-2006 | | | | Abstract: | The Reliance Electric Company was founded in 1905 as the Lincoln Electric Motor Works by Reuben and Charles Hitchcock in Cleveland, Ohio. The company, eventually renamed Reliance Electric & Engineering Company, produced electric motors, drives, controls, and telecommunication systems. The collection consists of correspondence, advertising, marketing materials, financial reports, photographic negatives, photographs, and 35mm slides. | | | | Call #: | MS 5341 | | | | Extent: | 1.00 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | Electric motors -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Electric motors -- Electronic control. | Women electronic industry workers -- United States. | Business records -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 63 | Title: | Maple Leaf Land Company Records
| | | | Creator: | Maple Leaf Land Company | | | | Dates: | 1900-1918 | | | | Abstract: | The Maple Leaf Land Company was a real estate enterprise which developed and sold land in Mayfield and Gates Mills, Ohio. the collection consists of correspondence, articles of incorporation, contracts, deeds, leases, financial statements, reports, lists of stockholders, and stock certificates. Includes papers (1909) relating to the organizing of the Chagrin Valley Country Sports Club (later Chagrin Valley Hunt Club). | | | | Call #: | MS 2538 | | | | Extent: | 1.20 linear feet (3 containers) | | | | Subjects: | Maple Leaf Land Company (Cleveland, Ohio) | Deeds -- Ohio -- Cuyahoga County. | Leases -- Ohio -- Cuyahoga County. | Real estate business -- Ohio -- Cuyahoga County.
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 65 | Title: | War Finance Corporation, Capital Issues Committee Statistical Report
| | | | Creator: | War Finance Corporation, Capital Issues Committee | | | | Dates: | 1918 | | | | Abstract: | The War Finance Corporation was organized May 17, 1918, under the authority of the War Finance Corporation Act, to help the United States government finance its participation in World War I. It was discontinued December 31, 1918. Frederick H. Goff of Cleveland, Ohio, was vice-chairman of the Capital Issues Committee. The collection consists of detailed statements of the operations of this committee, including a statistical report. | | | | Call #: | MS 0573 | | | | Extent: | 0.20 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | War Finance Corporation (U.S.). Capital Issues Committee. | World War, 1914-1918 -- Finance -- United States.
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| Photograph Collection | Requires cookie* | | 66 | Title: | Leisy Brewing Company Photographs
| | | | Creator: | Leisy Brewing Company | | | | Dates: | 1870-1960 | | | | Abstract: | The Leisy Brewing Company was a Cleveland, Ohio, based brewery which began as Isaac Leisy & Co. in 1873. Once Cleveland's largest independent brewery, it had branch agencies in Ohio, western Pa., and Indiana, and gained a reputation for its Premium Lager and Budweiser beers, before that became a brand name. Production in 1890 was over 90,000 barrels, and rose to 355,000 barrels by 1917. When the company closed in 1959, it was the oldest brewery in Cleveland and one of the longest surviving family-operated breweries in America. The collection consists of individual portraits of Otto Leisy and his family; unidentified individual and group portraits of Leisy Brewing Company staff; Leisy staff party portraits; views of the Leisy family residence; and exterior and interior views of the Leisy plant complex at various stages. The majority of photographs depict various aspects of Leisy advertising and include views of billboards, taxi posters, displays, horse-drawn and motorized delivery vehicles, and the Leisy company mascot. A bound album contains reproductions of product labels and advertising. | | | | Call #: | PG 422 | | | | Extent: | 0.60 linear feet (2 containers) | | | | Subjects: | Leisy, Otto, 1863-1914 -- Photograph collections. | Leisy family -- Photograph collections. | Leisy Brewing Company (Cleveland, Ohio) -- Photograph collections. | Brewing industry -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | German Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | Advertising -- Brewing industry -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | Brewery workers -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | German American families -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | Industries -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs.
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 67 | Title: | Cleveland Interfaith Housing Corporation Records
| | | | Creator: | Cleveland Interfaith Housing Corporation | | | | Dates: | 1962-1972 | | | | Abstract: | The Cleveland Interfaith Housing Corporation was established in 1966, by representatives of several local Protestant denominations, to provide adequate housing for needy minorities in Cleveland, Ohio. The collection consists of articles of incorporation, by-laws, minutes, correspondence, maps, clippings, resolutions, proposals, and reports. Includes agreements, minutes, by-laws, and correspondence of the West Central Area Development Corporation. | | | | Call #: | MS 3550 | | | | Extent: | 0.80 linear feet (2 containers) | | | | Subjects: | Cleveland Interfaith Housing Corporation. | Minorities -- Housing -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Housing -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Public housing -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 68 | Title: | W. Bingham Company Records
| | | | Creator: | W. Bingham Company | | | | Dates: | 1836-1857 | | | | Abstract: | The W. Bingham Company was a hardware company, founded by William Bingham in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1841, which supplied Cleveland shipbuilding, mining, and railroad industries. Bingham acquired his original inventory from the Potter, Clark, and Murphey Company. The collection consists of ledgers, journals, and an account book of the W. Bingham Company. Includes a journal (1836-1839) of the Potter, Clark, and Murphey Company. | | | | Call #: | MS 3280 | | | | Extent: | 1.80 linear feet (3 containers and 1 oversize volume) | | | | Subjects: | W. Bingham Co. | Businessmen -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Hardware stores -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Miscellanea. | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Commerce.
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| Photograph Collection | Requires cookie* | | 70 | Title: | Lees-Bradner Company Photographs
| | | | Creator: | Lees-Bradner Company | | | | Dates: | 1915-1965 | | | | Abstract: | The Lees-Bradner Company was organized in 1906 as a partnership between Ernest J. Lees and Hosea Townsend Bradner of Cleveland, Ohio. It incorporated in 1909. The company specialized in gear hobbing and thread milling machinery for automobile timing and transmission gears and other applications. Hosea Bradner's sons; John A., George T., and James H. Bradner, ran the company in the post-World War II era. The company was purchased by White Consolidated Industries in 1967 and by 1983 the name Lees-Bradner had been phased out and the Cleveland plant closed. After White Consolidated Industries was itself purchased by Electrolux in 1986, the gear hobbing division was sold and the name Lees-Bradner was reinstated as a machine tool manufacturer. The collection consists of individual portraits of Hosea Townsend Bradner, George Townsend Bradner, and John Bradner; group portraits of employees, including production workers, managers and sales personnel; and views of products, facilities, and activities. | | | | Call #: | PG 462 | | | | Extent: | 0.20 linear feet (1 container and 1 oversize folder) | | | | Subjects: | Bradner, Hosea Townsend, 1872-1963 -- Photograph collections. | Bradner, George T., 1916- -- Photograph collections. | Lees-Bradner Company -- Photograph collections. | White Consolidated Industries -- Photograph collections. | Grant-Lees Machine Company -- Photograph collections. | Machine-tool industry -- United States -- Photographs. | Machine-tool industry -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | Industries -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | Gear industry -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | Gear-cutting machines -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs.
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 72 | Title: | Printz-Biederman Company Records
| | | | Creator: | Printz-Biederman Company | | | | Dates: | 1914-1957 | | | | Abstract: | The Printz-Biederman Company was a Cleveland, Ohio, coat manufacturing company established in 1893 by Moritz Printz, his sons Michael and Alexander, and his son-in-law Joseph Biederman. The International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union tried to organize its employees in the 1930s. It closed in the 1970s. The collection consists of minutes, reports, agreements, correspondence, historical sketches, and publications relating to employee representative bodies which operated in the plant, and letters, telegrams and other writings to and from Abraham Katovsky and David Dubinsky of the International Ladies' Garment Workers Union Also includes catalogs and advertisements of the company's clothing. | | | | Call #: | MS 3870 | | | | Extent: | 0.40 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | Printz-Biederman Company (Cleveland, Ohio). | Printz-Biederman Company (Cleveland, Ohio) -- Catalogs. | Clothing trade -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Clothing trade -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Catalogs. | Clothing factories -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Women's clothing industry -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Clothing workers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Collective bargaining -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Clothing workers -- Labor unions -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Industrial relations -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 73 | Title: | Bosworth Hardware Company Records
| | | | Creator: | Bosworth Hardware Company | | | | Dates: | 1875-1935 | | | | Abstract: | The Bosworth Hardware Company was a Cleveland, Ohio, hardware store founded in 1874 by Newton C. Bosworth and known as Burrows-Bosworth Hardware Company until 1905. The company apparently specialized in industrial supplies and had accounts with such companies as Ohio Bell Telephone, Western Electric, Lake Erie Glass, Cleveland Paper and Warner and Swasey. The collection consists of financial records, including of account books, indexes to account books, and cash journals. Included are external and internal accounts, with dates and amounts for merchandise, advertising, labor, tools, charity and other expenses. The cash journals include a daily account of transactions. | | | | Call #: | MS 4508 | | | | Extent: | 4.40 linear feet (2 containers and 10 oversize volumes) | | | | Subjects: | Bosworth Hardware Company -- Finance. | Burrows-Bosworth Hardware Company -- Finance. | Hardware stores -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Finance.
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| Photograph Collection | Requires cookie* | | 74 | Title: | Glenn L. Martin Company Photographs
| | | | Creator: | Glenn L. Martin Company | | | | Dates: | 1918-1950 | | | | Abstract: | The Glenn L. Martin Company was founded by Glenn L. Martin, a pioneer airplane manufacturer. It incorporated in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1917 and remained until 1929, when Martin moved the company to Essex, Maryland. The company produced aircraft for military use. The Glenn L. Martin Company also built mail and passenger planes. It eventually evolved into the Martin Marietta Corporation. The collection consists of views of various aircraft and blimps, the Cleveland plant, and an R.A.F. jet bomber in Essex, Maryland, after a 1950s transatlantic flight. Also includes group portraits of Glenn L. Martin employees, interior and aerial views of the Glenn L. Martin plant in Cleveland, and postcards of the Glenn L. Martin plant in Essex, Maryland. | | | | Call #: | PG 436 | | | | Extent: | 0.21 linear feet (1 container and 1 oversize folder) | | | | Subjects: | Glenn L. Martin Company -- Photograph collections. | Aircraft industry -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | Airplanes -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Design and construction -- Photographs. | Martin airplanes -- Photographs. | Bombers -- Photographs. | Airplanes, Military -- Photographs.
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 75 | Title: | Beeman Chemical Company Records
| | | | Creator: | Beeman Chemical Company | | | | Dates: | 1891-1899 | | | | Abstract: | The Beeman Chemical Company was organized in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1888 by Edwin E. Beeman, a druggist and medical practitioner specializing in digestive disorders. Beeman discovered that pepsin, an extract from the stomach of hogs, relieved indigestion. Beeman added pepsin to chewing gum in 1890. The company manufactured and sold pepsin, "Beeman's Pepsin Gum," and other confections, and was sold to American Chicle Co. in 1899. The collection consists of articles of incorporation, bylaws, minutes of meetings, treasurer's reports, and other documents. | | | | Call #: | MS 2752 | | | | Extent: | 0.10 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | Beeman Chemical Company. | Confectioners -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- History -- Sources. | Chewing gum. | Industries -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- History -- Sources.
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 76 | Title: | Beilstein-Young Company Records
| | | | Creator: | Beilstein-Young Company | | | | Dates: | 1907-1930 | | | | Abstract: | The Beilstein-Young Company of Cleveland, Ohio, was a funeral home firm. Fred Beilstein operated as an undertaker at 3311 Prospect Avenue as early as 1907, and in 1913 the Beilstein-Young Company was incorporated. The funeral home was located at 7508 Carnegie Avenue from 1918-1921. The firm moved to 1795 Crawford Road in 1921. Fred Beilstein died in 1926, and his partner William W. Young became president and treasurer, with W. E. Beilstein as vice president. The collection consists of bound funeral registers. The registers list details about the deceased including name, date of birth, occupation, marital status, religion, place and cause of death, certifying physician, and name and birthplace of parents. The details of the funeral service include location, resider, place of burial, style of casket, and a diagram of the cemetery lot. The name and address of the party paying for the funeral is also listed, with an itemized list of services and expenses, and payment schedule. An introduction to each register describes the duties and ethics of the funeral director. | | | | Call #: | MS 4557 | | | | Extent: | 1.80 linear feet (3 containers) | | | | Subjects: | Beilstein-Young Company. | Funeral homes -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Undertakers and undertaking -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Registers of births, etc. -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Business enterprises -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Genealogy.
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 78 | Title: | Boldt Construction Company Photographs
| | | | Creator: | Boldt Construction Company | | | | Dates: | 1916-1929 | | | | Abstract: | The Boldt-Low Construction Company was founded in 1915 in Cleveland, Ohio, by John Boldt, Albert S. Low, R. M. Calfee, M. M. Feidner, and J. C. Fogg. The company changed its name to the Boldt Construction Company in 1918. The Boldt Construction Company specialized in commercial, industrial, and church building construction and maintained its corporate office at 6110 Euclid Avenue. The collection consists of seventy-five black and white photographs that document construction projects in Cleveland, Ohio, and other locations in Ohio, Michigan, and Pennsylvania. | | | | Call #: | MS 5300 | | | | Extent: | 0.20 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | Construction industry -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | Architecture -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs.
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 80 | Title: | Wilson Transit Company Records
| | | | Creator: | Wilson Transit Company | | | | Dates: | 1882-1890 | | | | Abstract: | The Wilson Transit Company (f. 1872) of Cleveland, Ohio, was a shipping company which shipped coal, railroad supplies and other goods on Lake Erie. The collection consists of record books of three ships, Charlemagne Tower, Jr., Wadena, and Wallula, from the company's freight-transportation fleet. | | | | Call #: | MS 3082 | | | | Extent: | 0.20 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | Wilson Transit Company (Cleveland, Ohio) | Shipping -- Erie, Lake -- Finance. | Ship's papers.
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